Use bread and fruit at your fondue party.
Fondue was popular during the 1970s, faded out and has slowly come back into the world of food. Hosting a fondue party can bring back that love of the 1970s while sharing food with your friends and family. Eating fondue can also be fun way to entertain because it's a bit messy and requires no utensils.
Theme
Choose a theme to make your fondue party stand out from just a regular dinner party. Go back in time when fondue was popular and ask guests to dress up in their best 1970s wear, serve food that was popular during that time and make the decor reflect the period. Or if you want to make the fondue party more fancy, have all your guests dress up and decorate with your finest china, crystal or other fancy items.
Set-Up
Setting up your tables for a fondue party can be one of the most important details. You need to know how many people are coming, if anyone is allergic to anything, how many courses you'll be serving, how many place settings you'll need and what fondue accessories you need. Decide if you want guests to sit at a table like a dinner party or if you want the fondue pots to be placed out buffet-style. Place the fondue pots so that everyone can reach them and place enough pieces of cut-up food in front of each guest. Have plenty of drinks on hand for your guests, as well.
Types of Fondue
Serve everyone at your party with a meat, vegetable, bread and dessert course from your fondue pots. Dip vegetables and bread into a cheese fondue. Use vegetables like potato cubes, broccoli, cherry tomatoes and bell pepper wedges, and types of bread like cubes of sourdough or ciabatta. For the meat course, use a fondue made of cooking oil or broth. Use cooked meat like beef, chicken, pork sausage cut into chunks or even shrimp. For the dessert course, melted chocolate is typically used for dipping chunks of fresh fruit, marshmallows, pound cake and brownies.
Hosting
As a host, you're able to control who is invited, what is served and when the party is taking place. But you also have to be responsible for the set-up, clean-up and preparation of all the food. Be prepared, have fun but expect for things to not go perfectly. Have plenty of napkins on hand or place bibs out for each guest, because fondue can get messy. Place an old table cloth onto the table with the fondue pots so that any drips or messes will hit the table cloth and not your tabletop.
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